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Author: Marie Snyder

December 1, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: The Game Changers: A Bit about Persuasion and Reason and Eating Your Vegetables

I’ve come to believe that determining the very best diet is as individual as figuring out the best course of action to treat anxiety or depression. We are each our own guinea pig. Individually, we each have to try a few things, gradually, while monitoring our energy levels, abilities, and

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November 29, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Pre-COP25 Panel of Speakers

A headache kept me home from work today, so I got some fresh air and checked out the climate strike. It was great timing for the strike, on Black Friday, with COP 25 starting in Chile three days from now. It’s a really hard sell to get a protest going

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November 23, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: The Greatest Propaganda Machine in History

Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G. and Borat, among others) won an award from the Anti-Defamation League. Here’s his 25 minute acceptance speech. It’s in writing, abridged a bit, below the video if you’d rather skim than watch. (Emphasis is mine.) “Today, around the world, demagogues appeal to our worst

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November 16, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Gen Z for Zero, Net Zero

Mia Rabson reports, “A baby born in Canada today will never know a time in which his or her health isn’t at risk from a warming planet . . . Without accelerated intervention, this new era will come to define the health of people at every stage of their lives.

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November 16, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: On Developing a Consistent Self

In a New York Times article, “What do teens learn online today?“, Elizabeth Weil suggests that kids are on the right track when they stream every inch of their anguish and joys in countless video tutorials aimed at, perhaps a necessary clarification, other teens. Weil says, “It’s nice if our fellow

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November 3, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Paul Gorski on Education and Inequity

For the first time in 28 years of teaching, I approve of the new guru being brought to the masses from on high. Immediately, from just the first few seconds of the  video we were compelled to watch for some force-fed professional development, I knew this guy was different. The sound was

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October 27, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Kyle Whyte on Wilderness

I saw Dr. Kyle Whyte present at the University of Waterloo on Thursday night on climate change, traditional knowledge, and environmental justice. It was similar to what he said in this video, but longer and with a Q&A at the end. It was eye-opening in the worst way – in

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October 20, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Cycling Rant

If cycling is part of your life, it looks like the NDP comes way ahead in terms of addressing cycling concerns. Extinction Rebellion is clear about the need for car-free streets as part of action to decrease the threats of climate change. And even my city claims to be moving

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October 14, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: LIberals the Best Bet for Climate Change

A climate scientists, Katharine Hayhoe, and economist, Andrew Leach, seem to suggest that the Liberals are our best bet for tackling climate change if you averages the grades they gave for ambition and feasibility. I know! I was surprised too. Here are their final grades: Conservatives: grade D for ambition,

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October 1, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: On Online Predators

From Keller & Dance’s article, ‘The Internet Is Overrun With Images of Child Sexual Abuse. What Went Wrong?“ Some of the less brutal bits: “An investigation by The New York Times found an insatiable criminal underworld that had exploited the flawed and insufficient efforts to contain it. As with hate

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September 3, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Like a Good Horror Film?

Most terrifying thing I’ve seen: We’re headed for 10 degrees in the next 20-30 years, and we will hit human extinction at 4 degrees?? Do I even bother to go to work today?? We’ve missed the window that could allow a gentle reversal. The only solution, he says, is to

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September 2, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Lesser of Two Evils

This is a great interview with Trudeau that asks all the important questions:

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August 30, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Why We Won’t Sufficate

…even if the entire rainforest burns down: Hank Green explains it here in just four minutes:

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August 28, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Mann’s Madhouse Effect

Michael Mann recently tweeted this: It’s dumb luck that I chanced to do just that! This book a comprehensive exploration of the issues mixed with clear examples and Tom Toles’s cartoons. It could easily be used as a climate change primer in a high school or middle school, and it

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August 26, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Nathaniel Rich’s Losing Earth

This is a quick read outlining the history of the efforts to do something to slow down fossil fuel use. Everything we know now about climate change, pretty much, we knew with great certainty forty years ago, in 1979. “The climate scientist James Hansen has called a 2-degree warming ‘a

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August 26, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: On Maintaining Firm Categories: Do Labels Matter?

This link about people on the spectrum came to my FB feed as “Sponsored Content,” so I’m wary at the get go, but they present this argument to be addressed: “Autism is a neurological difference in processing, and simply having a collection of traits or quirks without this difference in processing

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August 25, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: The Plague of Climate Change

I just finished Camus’s compelling read, The Plague. It’s a parable provoked by the Nazi Occupation, but also about general occupation, oppression, and isolation. It’s about resistance to incomprehensible evil and what it looks like to be a good person. But, it’s striking how well what much of he says fits

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August 23, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Hannah Arendt’s On Violence

Unfortunately, this is really timely. Arendt wrote this short book in 1970, but there’s nothing in it that needs to be updated today. Absolutely nothing significant has changed; it’s just more. She was responding to the violence of WWII, Vietnam, the student riots in Paris, and, most specifically, the People’s

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August 22, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: We Don’t Need a Scientist; We Need a Priest

PhilosophyTube is one of my favourite channels for in-depth analysis of issues in a philosophical and comedic yet profoundly heartfelt manner. Today Ollie tackled “Climate Grief” by working through the stages of grief. It’s curious how similar it is to my previous post: “Seven Shades of Green.” In brief: 1.

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August 16, 2019 Marie Snyder

A Puff of Absurdity: Seven Shades of Green

I’m trying to sort out all the solutions to the current and ongoing climate catastrophe. This is all getting very complicated, and I’m not sure I completely have my head around who’s who and which organization is promoting what, so this is just a partially completed overview of current ideology

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